It has
been a few weeks since i reflected on how this has been going unfortunately,
time has flown by so quickly in recent weeks and i just haven’t had the chance
to sit down and reflect on how my inquiry is going! Will try and make up for this now.
Our
writing programme is ticking along nicely, with our focus still being on ‘Exposition
Writing.’ We have completed a second
piece of writing. The student’s first looked
at an exemplar of writing on the topic ‘Kids Should be Kids’. I then got the students to argue against this
idea. We use the ideas the author had
used but did the reverse. The focus for this exposition was to include at least
one rhetorical question, and to use time and text connectives. This was pretty successful, and the students
we able to do most of the planning themselves using the planning template that
we used from the exemplar previously.
The only thing they are still struggling with is being able to come up
with two reasons to back up their originally opinion statement. Hopefully this will come with more practise,
as I eventually want them to be able to do this themselves without me needing
to spoon feed them ideas, or having to get the ideas from their classmates
sharing. We will be self assess our
writing on Monday and i will give these students feedback on their completed
writing.
This
week the whole class will be rotating around 4 different arguments writing
ideas for and against each argument as they go.
Then the class, including the inquiry group, will select the argument
that most interests them to write their next exposition on. Im hoping that this time around, the inquiry
group won’t need to meet with me for as much time to create their plans, as
they should have a wealth of ideas in which to use to create their plans. The focus for the writing will be to ensure
there are two clear reasons for each of our topic paragraph sentences.
Overall,
i think this writing unit is going well.
The inquiry group seems to find this factual writing topic a lot easier
to achieve the goal of ‘adding extra depth and detail’, and the improvement in
the girls writing is greater. When i
reflect on why this is it could be because they don’t have to use their imagination
as much as they had to with narrative writing.
Exposition is based on your opinion of a topic and your reasons for
thinking this.
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